“Count your Blessings!” 

From Louise Hay’s book Gratitude: A Way of Life.

Hello out there!

I am a fish lover. I eat a lot of it.

I have been obsessed by images of killing thuna: Those big ocean beauties!

And have been wondering since years whether there isn’t a more humane way of ending their journey in this World?

Their gills make their circulatory system easily attainable to gaz solutions in water.

Probably even a weak CO2 solution in salty water could put them asleep???

Carbonarcosis in humans is a well known entity. This could be the result here, in fish.

Remains to see how tastes fish flesh after such treatment.

Well, advocates of fast killing are proposing aggressive measures because of lactic acidosis avoidance.

If so, chemists might propose other components, which would put fish asleep before killing them. 

For cattle slaughter in farms is practiced after administration of anesthetics. 

Israelis and Moslems are doing it since thousands years Kashrut or Halal way, which avoids to the animal a lot of suffering. 

On the other side, decapitating the tuna fish and tunneling its spinal cord does not avoid lactate accumulation in the head. 

This part of the animal is extremely tasty, and such a waste is a pity! 

It would be more practical to pass a strong electrical current in the head. 

An oscillating one causes epileptical seizures, which are to be avoided.

This aim can be achieved with a strong voltage, with a very high frequency. Aiming at the brain! (Hindbrain?) 

A low intensity current of 20-30 seconds applied at the cranio-spinal junction will probably do the job without altering the taste of sushi from the head. 

“I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it.” 

John 12:49. 

Small Fish

Those ones occupy either the sea bottom, or wander around in swarms, to accomplish their life-journey, reproduction and so-forth.

The first defend eagerly as couples of two or three their territory, in similarity to a nest.

Both groups, being small, proceed in the same way to protect against predators.

They form a tight crowd, which impresses the bigger predator by its size.

This strategy helps on the opposite side the intelligent whales and other mammals.

Recently, I met a family of fishermen, working in Geneva’s area of the Leman lake.

One of them told me he could never catch a good amount of perches if he threw his nets on the same spot.

From the works of Konrad Lorenz, an Austrian biologist, who had been observing animal comportment more than 70 years ago, it is obvious why.

The fisherman, a quite experienced one, noted correctly the best spots, though those ones need time for repopulation.

I gather that at least 2-4 weeks are needed.

I remember two books of Konrad Lorenz works: “Das so-genannte Böse” and “Die Aggression”.

Throwing a net on the bottom of the lake has the same effect on perches, as the approach of a pike:-They all gather for defense and the whole family is caught on the spot.